Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei accuses the US of seeking to manipulate the people by supporting protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death
Since the protests erupted, dozens of people, mostly demonstrators but also including members of the security forces, have been killed.
"The reports of intelligence agencies show that the enemy had established a plan for Tehran and the country's large and small cities," Khamenei said on Wednesday, referring to the United States. "Their plan, their objective is to get the Iranian people to follow them, and the opinion of the Iranian people to become identical to the opinion of the British and American leaders," Khamenei said.
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